The Aztec sun stone at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City
photographed in c. 1930. Photo: Ewing Galloway/General Photographic Agency/Getty Images
Tag: Aztecs
Temple of the Dead
The Temple of the Dead by Victor Norwood, Published by Scion Books, 1951
Curse of the Aztec Mummy, 1957
Aztec Rex (Tyrannosaurus Azteca)
Aztec Rex (aka Tyrannosaurus Azteca) is a made for TV movie by the Syfy channel, released in 2008.
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Itzpapalotl, 1900s
In Aztec myth, Itzpapalotl (“Clawed Butterfly”/”Obsidian Butterfly”) was a fearsome skeletal warrior goddess. She rules over Tamoanchan, the paradise of victims of infant mortality, the place where humans are created. As the mother of Mixcoatl, she could appear in the form of a beautiful, seductive woman or terrible goddess with a skeletal head and butterfly wings made of stone blades. Below is a Dancer in Paris, 1900s which could be used as a possible representation of Itzpapalotl
Aztec’s tower of human skulls
A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.
Skulls are seen at a site where more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments were found in the cylindrical edifice near Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which later became Mexico City, Mexico June 30, 2017. REUTERS/Henry Romero
